Presented at Velocity 2013 NYC. More resources: http://sethwalker.me/talks/a-public-commitment-to-performance/

1. A Public Commitment to
Performance
One weird trick to kickstart a performance culture
Velocity NYC October 15, 2013

2. @sethwalker

4. http://bit.ly/performanceculture

5. Who is responsible
for performance?

7. You need a
performance culture

8. Changing culture
is hard

9. One weird trick

10. Etsy -2years

11. What we had

12. What we wanted

13. Weather report

15. Choosing metrics

16. Key pages

17. 95th percentile backend

18. Weekday

19. or whatever...

20. Keep it simple

21. You can change it later

22. You can change it later

23. You will change it later

24. Get your tools
in place

25. Can you measure it?

26. Repeatable?

28. Woah, embarrassing

29. It's not as private
as you might think

30. This motivates your
team to get better

31. Consider your
audience(s)

32. Community
Engineering Team
Velocity

33. Woah, embarrassing

34. Numbers are boring

36. Graphs are awesome

38. Celebrate wins

39. Performance is invisible

43. Ongoing context

44. Context for regressions

46. Iterate

47. Graphs are awesome

49. What's next

50. One weird trick

51. Take the long view

52. A note about privilege

53. "I love, love, love the latest
performance report -- the
report itself, not just the
great numbers."
- Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson

54. Tell them I said
it is all good.

55. Now, you share

56. Questions?
http://bit.ly/performanceculture
@sethwalker